Port"pane (?), n. [From L. portare to carry + panis bread; prob.
through French.] A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with
the hands. [Obs.]
Por"trait (?), n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See
Portray.] 1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists
more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every
feature.
Sir J. Reynolds.
The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a
photographic likeness.
2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person;
as, a portrait in words.
Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the
actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an
ideal bust or statue.
Por"trait, v. t. To portray; to draw. [Obs.] Spenser.
Por"trait*ist, n. A portrait painter. [R.] Hamerton.
Por"trai*ture (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.] 1. A portrait; a likeness;
a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or
model.
For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his.
Shak.
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our
neighbors but the portraiture.
Bacon.